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Renewing Your Passion Series
Contributed by Darron Edwards on Apr 9, 2004 (message contributor)
Summary: For those who have lost their passion to do ministry.
Renewing Your Passion: Returning to Your First Love
Revelation 2: 4-5
I. Indicators of Lost Passion
A. Routine with no romance
B. Service with no substance
C. Indifference towards of others
D. Small compromises
II. What should our passion be?
1. A Love for God.
"Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and
with all your mind and with all your strength." Mark 12:30
2. A Love for others.
"The second is this: ’Love your neighbor as yourself.’ There is
no commandment greater than these." Mark 12:31
IV. How to Return to our First Love
1. Remember!
"Remember the height from which you have fallen!" Revelation 2: 5a
2. Repent! "Repent." Revelation 2:5b
3. Resume!
".and do the things you did at first."Revelation 2:5c